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Operation Zero Zero

Explanation
Eight young activists were killed and at least seven were injured in explosions involving booby-trapped hand grenades in Duduza, KwaThema and Tsakane, Tvl, on 26 June 1985. The zero-timed grenades had been provided by a Vlakplaas operative purporting to be an MK operative. The operation, codenamed 'Zero Zero', had been authorised by the Minister of Law and Order. Fifteen Security Branch operatives, including the head of the Security Branch and other senior personnel, were granted amnesty for the operation.

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Both applicants acted during the operation under the borders of Cronje. They didn't partake in the operation except in so far as they accompanied Cronje and identified the spots where the operation would be carried out. They however associated themselves therewith.
During August 1988 explosives were put in the basement of Khotso House and the building was badly damaged in the ensuing explosion. A night watchman was injured but fortunately nobody was killed. All the applicants played a part, as envisaged above, in the carrying out of the operation.
... the answer goes this way: The question is, in the most ambiguous manner possible, Mr Richardson concedes that at some or other level he had a co-operation arrangement with Mr Pretorius. He denies that it was the full extent of an informer. That leads us to ask the question, is it not ...
DR ALLY: Because, Mama, you may know that in the same period, 1985, June, July, that there was actually an operation, it was called Operation Zero Zero, which the Security Police were responsible for. What it involved was giving to young Comrades, grenades that people pretended to be from the ...
constant. In 1989 I remember I was alone with my mum in the house, my father, sisters and brothers having gone to the Orange Free State and I had an operation problem which caused me to vomit the whole night. The following morning my mum hired a car to take me to hospital where I was reoperated ...
... He and Joe Mamasela, a former member of MK who was turned an askari, worked very closely with Hechter and were involved in many illegal operations.  The three (3) of them worked together as a team.  What would  happen was, Hechter would receive an order from Cronje and he would ...
about my unit's activities. I confirm what he has said in his evidence in chief where he relates to me. I wish to point out that since this was my operation I made a final decision about the operation. Since I was commanding the operation, Mr Sipho Mthembu was to act on my orders. I, in line ...
The incidents in question occurred during the period 1984 - 1986 at Johannesburg.  The target of the operation was a former journalist who subsequently held a senior position within the South African Council of Churches.  Applicant furnished the following particulars in regard to the ...
MR BOTHA: Here I specifically refer to operation butterfly which is the code name of an ANC operation
MR CORNELIUS: Did you participate in the operation and did you reconcile yourself with the operation?
There was direct military action. We have this here as Operation Palmiet. This operation took place in 1984 during the height of the Vaal rent boycott. This phase gave way to another lasting era from the late part of 1985 until the national peace accord. This phase can be described as a phase ...
... informed Applicant that the ANC structures in Tembisa had decided that Mr Songo should be eliminated and had appointed Mr Tleane to oversee the operation.  A further decision was made that Applicant should be ordered to execute the elimination of Mr Songo.  In view of Mr Tleane's ...
1. The applicant did not make a full disclosure, particularly around the arrest of Mr Charles Ndaba who was a key figure in Operation Vula and who was killed by the Security Police.
MR VISSER: Is it also your evidence that the operation was a Special Forces', army, operation?
... there is no enough evidence. Then I made some attempts to go to the station commander, but all these were in vain because I didn't get enough ...
MR BLACK: Did he go out to the scene of the operation, did you as the Investigator take him out to where the shooting had taken place so that he could take photographs of that scene?
MR BIZOS: The question was: "Was it a contingency plan which could only be put into operation by the decision of the Party"?
... you recall that Willie Nortje was present and you have already heard that his legal representative has stated that he was not present during the operation. Is it possible that you may have confused his presence in this operation with his presence in ...
... the fence. The suspects were held at Piet Retief where they were detained in terms of Section 29 of the Internal Security Act. Through their co-operation large caches of arms were retrieved from Dead Letter Boxes. Acts of insurrection which had already been planned by MK were prevented. ...
Mr N Mabusela and Mr M M Mjumbuntqla. This information I got directly from some of the police that were involved in that particular raid. In that operation Clive Brink shot from inside Mr Jombuntqla's house and he claimed, that is the IR, claimed that it was an MK terrorist who did the ...
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